Forwarding

Harris use the term, a writer forwards a text by taking words, images, or ideas from it and putting them to use in new contexts. He divides the methods of forwards into four parts, which are illustrating, authorizing, borrowing and extending. . Through reading what he writes, I think he treats the forwarding progress as recreating not as quotation. His forwarding includes transferring the no-text form like image into text form, using a new angle to explain an old fact, and giving more examples and deep thinks to an idea.  He clearly writes the purpose of us when we do forwarding and what technique we can use to get our destination. I think all of us should have done forwarding, but may be just subliminal to do it. He makes the forwarding process standardized, and let us know what skills we should to use, so that we can use them purposefully. 

            To be honest, I think the feeling of the forwarding on the internet is different from the paper works. Because using links is much easier on the Internet. Most people choose to add a picture, a video or a link directly with some simple explanation to their works rather than describe or illustrating it carefully. But because it is a fundamental skill of writing, nearly everyone will use it when they writing. Because I am not a fixed read of a blogger, I just open one’s casually, even in this I can easily find an example. Like Ezra Klein, he writes his thinking about some article on the Washington Post, he always needs to illustrate a chart or an article when he begins to analysis it. He extends the original thinking with his own. I think everyone need this technique when he writes some complex thinking. None can create everything by himself, and which will also less authority. So in order make our writing more believable and can evoke more attention, we must use this skill when we writing, no matter a paper or a blog. This reason makes it a very common skill.

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